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Original Title:	We Need New Names
ISBN:	0316230812 (ISBN13: 9780316230810)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/noviolet-bulawayo/we-need-new-names/9780316230810/
Setting:	Tsholotsho(Zimbabwe) Detroit, Michigan(United States) Bulawayo(Zimbabwe)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2013), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2013), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2014), Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt Nominee (2015), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) Betty Trask Award (2014)

We Need New Names

NoViolet Bulawayo

Hardcover | Pages: 298 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 17060 Users | 2218 Reviews

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Title	:	We Need New Names
Author	:	NoViolet Bulawayo
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 298 pages
Published	:	May 21st 2013 by Reagan Arthur Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Eastern Africa. Zimbabwe. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Novels. Literature. African Literature

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An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.

Darling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.

But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her--from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. Coetzee--while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own.

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Ratings: 3.73 From 17060 Users | 2218 Reviews

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4.5 stars rounded up. I had read mixed reviews of this novel with comments focussing on it being disjointed or running through a ticklist of African problems to squeeze in them all. Some have taken issues with the first half of the book, some with the second half. It is the story of Darling; she is born in Zimbabwe and in the first part of the book she is ten years old. Darling and her gang of friends Chipo, Godknows, Bastard, Stina and Sbho, do pretty much what children left to their own

I had a spirited chat with a fan of this book. She (naturally) stated I was behaving in a sexist manner and implied, with dark tones of voice, that I was probably a racist too, because I don't think this is a particularly good book, and *certainly* don't think it's Booker-worthy.Rating: 2.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: A remarkable literary debut -- shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize! The unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America.Darling is

This is a book that really grew on me. It starts off following a group of children in Zimbabwe: Darling, Stina, Chipo, Bastard and Godknows, seemingly innocent children living in a not so innocent environment. As a child, Darling and friends lived in shanty towns in Zimbabwe after Mugabes paramilitary police bulldozed down their homes. They spent their days stealing guavas,getting into mischief and daydreaming about the typical things African kids do- about eating good food and ultimately

It took me almost to the end to get my interpretation of this book straight, since I was thrown off the scent by a snippet of praise from Peter Godwin "NoViolet Bulawayo is a powerful, authentic nihilistic voice - feral, feisty, funny". I haven't read Godwin's book so to me he is just some white guy, and I've gotta say I hate the gendered word feisty which is supposed to mean 'spirited' but throws off sexual connotations and also 'feral' which means wild like a free undomesticated animal and in

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/NoViolet Bulawayo tells a tale that is almost unfathomable. Who could ever imagine living the first few years of life as an average middle-class girl, in an average house, in an average town, attending an average school and having that world flipped upside down? That is the story of what happens to Darling and her friends when bulldozers sweep through their average lives in Zimbabwe, demolishing everything in their path. Now the

Hard to say what drew me to this book -- the author's name is just awesome. The cover is eye-catching. The reviews have been stellar. Also, I've long been interested in the painful history of Zimbabwe (once British colonial Rhodesia) since I tried to figure out how to teach this hugely complex subject and do it justice in my middle school social studies classroom. (I can't say that I ever really succeeded.) Bulawayo writes a searingly beautiful story -- a fictionalized memoir -- about a young

Oh stars, ratings. Bulawayo' s writing has effectively depicted such a bleak picture in my brain of life in Zimbabwe, life in America, life anywhere, that I am thoroughly depressed and somewhat shamed. This is a writer who charms you with the antics of the poor but creative and precocious children in their "Paradise" with the clever and intelligent games they play. Through the memorable character of Darling, we experience these games, and then the hard realities of coming to America. Bulawayo